Indiana educators blast report on teacher prep program

5:27 PM,
Jun. 19, 2013

Gerardo Gonzalez dean of the Indiana University Department of Education

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Stephanie Wang
stephanie.wang@indystar.com

A scathing national report released Tuesday described college teacher-preparation programs as an "industry of mediocrity" that mostly fail to produce well-trained teachers.

Indiana University's School of Education - which received decent marks in the study - chewed out the report as "fatally flawed," misleading and unethical.

"There are such fundamentally fatal flaws with the methodology that no matter what they conclude, it's invalid," said Gerardo Gonzalez, IU education dean. "It is truly an irresponsible undertaking, given that it violates research ethics, and it doesn't ...